c. 1500 BCE The Vedas 12 --
c. 585 BCE Birth of Western Philosophy 14 --
c. 540 BCE Reincarnation 18 --
c. 530 BCE Anthropomorphization 22 --
c. 525 BCE The Four Noble Truths 24 --
c. 525 BCE No-Self (Anatta) 26 --
c. 500 BCE Confucian Ethics 28 --
c. 500 BCE Reciprocity 30 --
c. 500 BCE Change Is Constant 32 --
c. 500 BCE The Book of Job 34 --
c. 470 BCE Change Is Illusory 36 --
c. 460 BCE Mind Organizes Nature 38 --
c. 460 BCE The Paradoxes of Motion 40 --
c. 450 BCE Survival of the Fittest 42 --
c. 450 BCE Protagoras and Relativism 44 --
c. 450 BCE The Sophists 46 --
c. 450 BCE Ladder of Love 48 --
c. 430 BCE Know Thyself 50 --
c. 420 BCE Atoms and the Void 52 --
c. 420 BCE Universal Love 54 --
c. 400 BCE Cynicism 56 --
c. 400 BCE Cyrenaie Hedonism 58 --
c. 400 BCE The Bhagavad Gita 60 --
399 BCE The Trial and Death of Socrates 62 --
c. 399 BCE Socratic Dialogues 64 --
c. 386 BCE Plato Founds the Academy 66 --
c. 380 BCE The World of the Forms 68 --
c. 380 BCE Plato's Republic 70 --
c. 380 BCE Mind-Body Dualism 72 --
c. 367 BCE Aristotle Enrolls in the Academy 74 --
334 BCE Hellenization Begins 76 --
c. 330 BCE The Invention of Logic 78 --
c. 330 BCE The Earth-Centered Universe 80 --
c. 330 BCE Matter and Form 82 --
c. 330 BCE The Four Causes 84 --
c. 330 BCE Nicomachean Ethics 86 --
c. 320 BCE Maybe Life Is a Dream 88 --
c. 300 BCE Ecclesiastes 90 --
c. 300 BCE Epicureanism 92 --
c. 300 BCE Stoicism 94 --
c. 300 BCE Innate Goodness 96 --
155 BCE Carneades on Justice 98 --
c. 55 BCE On the Nature of Things 100 --
51 BCE Universal Moral Law 102 --
c. 30 CE The Christian Era Begins 104 --
c. 65 Buddhism Comes to China 106 --
65 The Death of Seneca 108 --
c. 125 Epictetian Stoicism 110 --
e. 150 Platonism and Christianity 112 --
180 The Philosopher-King 114 --
c. 200 Outlines of Pyrrhonism 116 --
c. 250 Neoplatonism 118 --
c. 285 The Problem of Universals 120 --
386 Augustine's Conversion 122 --
415 Death of Hypatia 124 --
426 The City of God 126 --
c. 460 The Last Great Greek Philosopher 128 --
476 The Dark Ages Begin 130 --
c. 500 The Way of Negation 132 --
c. 520 Origins of Chan/Zen Buddhism 134 --
524 The Consolations of Philosophy 136 --
529 Justinian Closes the Academy 138 --
c. 630 The Rise and Spread of Islam 140 --
c. 700 Huineng and the Platform Sutra 142 --
c. 840 Islamic Philosophy Begins 146 --
c. 865 Eriugena's Christian Neoplatonism 148 --
c. 1015 Ibn Sina's Islamic Aristotelianism 150 --
1078 The Ontological Argument 152 --
c. 1093 The Incoherence of the Philosophers 154 --
1121 The Birth of Scholasticism 156 --
c. 1130 Aristotelian Revival in the West 158 --
c. 1135 Qualified Dualism 160 --
c. 1180 Revival of Confucianism 162 --
c. 1185 The Commentator 164 --
c. 1190 The Guide for the Perplexed 166 --
c. 1220 Philosophers Join Academia 168 --
c. 1250 The Universal Doctor 170 --
1259 A Franciscan Approach to Philosophy 172 --
c. 1265 The Great Medieval Synthesis 174 --
c. 1265 The Five Ways 176 --
c. 1270 Natural Law 178 --
c. 1300 Attack on the Medieval Synthesis 180 --
c. 1300 Mystical Theology 182 --
c. 1320 Ockham's Razor 184 --
c. 1320 Conceptualism 186 --
1324 The Defender of Peace 188 --
c. 1350 The Renaissance Begins 190 --
1440 The Synthesis of Opposites 192 --
1468 The Recovery of Platonism 194 --
1517 The Reformation Begins 198 --
c. 1520 The Humanist Ideal 200 --
c. 1525 The Silver Age of Scholasticism 202 --
1539 The Rights of Native Peoples 206 --
1543 The Birth of Modern Science 208 --
1580 Revival of Classical Skepticism 210 --
1605 The Advancement of Learning 212 --
1620 The Enlightenment Begins 214 --
1625 On the Law of War and Peace 216 --
1637 The Father of Modem Philosophy 218 --
1641 Meditations on First Philosophy 220 --
1651 Free Will and Determinism Are Compatible 224 --
1670 Pascal's Wager 226 --
1674 Occasionalism 228 --
1689 Religious Liberty 234 --
c. 1700 Preestablished Harmony 238 --
1713 To Be Is to Be Perceived 240 --
1725 The Moral Sense 242 --
1736 The Analogy of Religion 246 --
1739 A Treatise of Human Nature 248 --
1739 The Problem of Induction 250 --
1748 An Attack on Miracles 252 --
1748 The Spirit of the Laws 254 --
1751 Morality Is Rooted in Feeling 256 --
1754 America's First Major Philosopher 258 --
c. 1760 The Birth of Romanticism 262 --
1762 The Social Contract 264 --
1762 Emile and Natural Education 266 --
1764 The Philosophy of Common Sense 268 --
1770 A Godless, Mechanistic Universe 270 --
1779 Hume's Dialogues 272 --
1781 Critique of Pure Reason 274 --
1785 The Categorical Imperative 276 --
1787 The Federalist 278 --
1789 Utilitarianism 280 --
1790 Critique of Judgment 282 --
1790 Forefather of Conservatism 284 --
1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 286 --
c. 1795 The Beginnings of German Idealism 288 --
1807 The Phenomenology of Spirit 290 --
1819 The Philosophy of Pessimism 292 --
1821 The Real Is the Rational 294 --
1832 Law and Morality Are Separate 298 --
1836 American Transcendentalism 300 --
1841 Idealism Is Turned Upside Down 302 --
1843 Existentialism 304 --
1843 A System of Logic 306 --
1846 Truth Is Subjectivity 308 --
1848 The Communist Manifesto 310 --
1859 Darwin's Origin of Species 316 --
1862 Social Darwinism 318 --
1863 Refined Utilitarianism 320 --
c. 1865 The Rise of British Idealism 322 --
1869 The Subjection of Women 326 --
1874 The Methods of Ethics 328 --
1878 Intentionality 330 --
1878 Origins of Pragmatism 332 --
1879 The New Logic 334 --
1882 "God Is Dead" 336 --
1882 Perspectivism 338 --
1887 The Revaluation of Values 340 --
1890 The Principles of Psychology 342 --
1897 "The Will to Believe" 344 --
1900 Phenomenology 346 --
1901 Environmental Preservationism 348 --
1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience 350 --
1903 Ethical Intuitionism 352 --
1903 The Analytic-Continental Split 354 --
1905 The Theory of Definite Descriptions 356 --
1910 Principia Mathematica 362 --
1912 The Problems of Philosophy 364 --
1916 Progressive Education 366 --
1918 Logical Atomism 368 --
1920 Contemplation vs. Enjoyment 370 --
c. 1920 Neo-Thomism 372 --
1921 The Picture Theory of Language 374 --
1925 Instrumentalism 378 --
1927 Being and Time 380 --
1927 Religion as Wish Fulfillment 382 --
1929 Process Philosophy 384 --
1929 An Idealist View of Life 386 --
1930 Deontological Intuitionism 388 --
1932 Ordinary Language Philosophy 390 --
1934 The Rejection of Metaphysics 392 --
1936 Logical Positivism 394 --
1942 Existential Defiance 398 --
1943 Being and Nothingness 400 --
1945 The Phenomenology of Perception 404 --
1946 Atheistic Existentialism 406 --
1949 The Ghost in the Machine 408 --
1949 The Second Sex 410 --
1951 "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" 414 --
1952 Prescriptivism 416 --
1953 Philosophical Investigations 418 --
1953 Impossibility of a Private Language 420 --
1954 The New Riddle of Induction 422 --
1959 Falsifiability in Science 426 --
1959 Descriptive Metaphysics 428 --
1960 The Indeterminacy of Translation 430 --
1960 Functionalism 434 --
1961 Legal Positivism 436 --
1962 Scientific Revolutions 438 --
1962 Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy 440 --
1963 The Gettier Problem 442 --
1966 Soul-Making Theodicy 444 --
1967 Deconstruction 446 --
c. 1968 The (Re)birth of Applied Ethics 448 --
1968 Mind-Brain Identity Theory 450 --
1970 Anomalous Monism 452 --
1971 A Theory of Justice 454 --
c.1971 The Rise of Informal Logic 456 --
1974 Political Libertarianism 458 --
1974 "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" 460 --
1975 Animal Liberation 464 --
1975 Power/Knowledge 466 --
c. 1976 Emergence of Feminist Philosophy 468 --
1977 Moral Anti-Realism 470 --
1977 Taking Rights Seriously 472 --
1979 The New Pragmatism 474 --
1979 Postmodernism 476 --
1980 The Chinese Room 480 --
1980 The Causal Theory of Reference 482 --
1981 The Revival of Virtue Ethics 484 --
1981 Critical Theory 486 --
1982 In a Different Voice 488 --
1984 Revival of Christian Philosophy 490 --
1984 Reasons and Persons 492 --
1984 The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law 494 --
1985 The Peculiar Institution of Morality 496 --
1987 Pragmatic Realism 498 --
1989 Religious Pluralism 500 --
1991 Philosophical Zombies 502 --
2000 The Capability Approach 504 --
2004 The New Atheists 506 --
2006 Cosmopolitanism 508 --
2011 The Triple Theory of Ethics 510.